Laudanum, who released the stunning Sacred Death split with Stormcrow earlier in the year, has released The Coronation on 20 Buck Spin. Featuring members of the much revered Graves At Sea as well as Pig Heart Transplant, The Coronation is a downtuned massive slab of doom interrupted by ominous dark ambient passages. Pick up The Coronation NOW at 20 Buck Spin and dig on one of those tracks, "Invoke", above.

French shoegazey black-metaller Alcest is preparing a new album which will contain six tracks, four new and two of which will be re-recorded from the Le Secret EP. Alcest, aka Neige also of Amesouers and Pest Noire fame, will employ Winterhalter (also Peste Noire, et al) to handle drum duties on the release, which should appear in January of 2010. Alcest's last LP was the critically acclaimed Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

Pennsylvania band Mother of Mercy, who features members of the great Blacklisted, recently dropped their killer album IIIvia Six Feet Under Records. This is one seriously pissed off hardcore record... highly recommended! One track, "Divide", is streaming here but you can also download "Back To The Agony" above!

Rot In Hell's 2006-2008 discography, Hallways of The Always, is out NOW via A389 Recordings (vinyl) and Grot Records (CD). The UK band follows a similar path as Integrity and Ringworm... a sick/bleak metallic hardcore, and this LP is a must have for Holy Terror fans before they drop their debut LP on Deathwish! Download a song from Hallways of The Always, "Black Omega", above.

Prepare for another Aaron Turner (Isis) supergroup... Jodis featuring James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida of Khanate! Their debut LP, Secret House, will be released via Hydra Head on 10/27.

Lately, I have been giving the new Infernal Stronghold LP alot of burn. The project, which shares a drummer with the black metal monsters in Woe, treads an old school black metal-punk aesthetic and is one of those bands that can usually be seen at an ABC No Rio matinee. And that's where you can see them on October 3, when the band lands in NYC supporting Cannabis Corpse at one of two shows that day, at the Charleston and ABC No Rio (matinee). Infernal Stronghold's new LP Godless Noise is out NOW via Forcefield Records. Check out a pair of tracks, "Curb the Trend" and "Destruction of Life...Unworthy of Life!", available for download above!

Javelina is currently streaming "Black Blizzard" from their upcoming monster Beasts Among Us, the tracklisting of which is below!

If you have been to a single underground metal or punk show in NYC, chances are you have seen Tournament (though I missed their set at Union Pool on Sunday night). The band's Swordswallower EP was a fave, but now they have a NEW baby, Years Old, out NOW via Forcefield Records. Check out "Something Temporary" available for download above and check out the band at either the Chronic Youth Launch party with Cannabis Corpse on 8/21 or at the recently added Dark Castle show on 9/13 at The Charleston. Flyer is below.

A video from Fuck The Facts, news on Jesu/Final, Goes Cube, Pig Destroyer, Weekend Nachos, and much more as This Week In Metal continues...

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Fuck The Facts - "La tete hors de l'eau / doghead" Live 08/07/09

Justin Broadrick has been very busy as of late, prepping a new Jesu EP (Opiate Sun), LP (Infinity - out now on Avalanche) and split with Envy (a US reissue), not to mention the Greymachine LP AND a new Final LP!
First up, Opiate Sun, which will see daylight on Mark Kozelek's Caldo Verde Records on Oct 27th. A taste from that EP, "Deflated", is above. The previously mentioned Final LP is actually Reading All The Right Signals Wrong, which was originally issued on vinyl only in Feb of this year but is due on digital/CD format via No Quarter Records next week. The digital version will feature an additional four bonus tracks, one of which, "Wrong Signal (alt. mix)", is available above.

Pyramids and Nadja will collaborate on a NEW LP due on Hydra Head on 10/27. The self-titled LP will feature a killer cast of contributors including Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil), Colin Marston (Dysrhythmia, Krallice, etc), James Plotkin (Khanate, Khlyst, etc), Ulver, and Lustmord! Dig on an MP3 that has surfaced over at Stereogum.

The latest incarnation from maniacal mastermind Lasse (Vacant Coffin, Hooded Menace, many others) is the charging old-school death metal of Claws. The band, which was formed in August of 2008, will release the Absorbed in the Nethervoid LP on Razorback later this year. More details are to come, but until then, dig on "Macabre Manifestations" at the Razorback myspace and "Casket Contagion" at the Claws myspace.

SMNNews interviews Dave Lombardo of Slayer

Oakland's SubArachnoid Space is hitting the road with Italian oddball sludgesters OvO, having scheduled a show at Lit Lounge on 9/21 and another at Europa on 9/24. Full tour routing is below. SubArachnoid Space's new LP, Eight Bells, is out on Crucial Blast on 8/31. Preview/pre-order it here.

Floor, the band that formed the basis for Torche, will release a BOX SET of their recorded output via Robotic Empire!

Doomers dot (.) and sludge-grinders SU19B have teamed up for a split EP, Drowned Into Swamp..., out NOW via RSR. Members of the mighty dot (.) went on to form Coffins.

Wetnurse will support deathgrinders Gigan and death-metallers Lecherous Nocturne at Union Pool on 9/9 as part of a East Coast tour for the duo. Full tour dates for the bands are below.